On November 13th 2011, economists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst drafted an open statement to the Occupy Wall Street movement pledging their support. Since then, more than 250 economists from around the world have added their names.

Occupy London has opened up its third space and first building, the Bank of Ideas, calling it ‘a public repossession,’ and transformed the huge abandoned offices of investment bank UBS into a space for political discussion and debate.